Kazakhstan and Croatia join world’s carbon trading schemes

Kazakhstan and Croatia have become the latest countries to establish carbon trading schemes. Oil, gas and mineral rich Kazakhstan now requires any organisation emitting more than 20,000 tonnes of CO2 to take part in a cap and trade system.
It launched on January 1 this year with 178 oil and gas, mining and other big industrial emitters taking part. “Kazakhstan takes an unprecedented effort. In CIS we are the first country which steps forward to establish a national emissions trading system. This is a kind of innovation,” said Nurlan Kapparov, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Environmental Protection ahead of the launch………………………………………..Full Article: Source